Impact on Fashion
This image is sketches of the drawings.http://www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/coco-chanel-designs.html
Coco Chanel greatly influenced women's fashion. Specifically she influenced women and men. Women now had more freedom in what they were supposed to wear; they could dress how they wanted. Her fashion also helped the creation of other fashion, she inspired others to not only expand on the fashion of the time but to continue to evolve fashion. Coco Chanel made it so menswear could also be worn as womenswear, this was a huge step because it helped show how women and men were equal. She freed the ankles, loosened the waistline, allowed women to be able to cut their hair, and she just gave them so much freedom to do so much more.
She influenced men due to the fact that she proved women were capable of more than just being housewives. They could work and do just as much as men, they just hadn't been given the opportunity. I think that while Chanel didn't change how men thought about women, she opened their eyes to a new point of view.
Women wearing the classic Chanel Suithttp://nypost.com/2013/11/15/the-secrets-of-jackies-iconic-pink-chanel-suit/
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." I think this quote is really important because it shows how she defied the societal norm.
This image shows a then and now of the Chanel Suit, proving it still is an inspiration and is still being used. http://evolutionofchanelfashion.blogspot.com/
This is an image of Coco Chanel's fashion then and now. She is irreplaceable and we know this because so many people still look up to her designs and continue to use her creativity. Karl Lagerfeld now runs her company and he continues to use her iconic symbol, and the ideas that inspired Chanel's original designs. Chanel Also inspired other designers with other fashion risks. I think that is a really cool thing because it shows how much of an impact she had on the fashion world.
